The creative brief for this project was to design a busy christmas scene containing a crowd of characters and visual clues that would correspond with the list of 50 tv & movie titles.

Together with the art director & producer at WCRS we landed upon the idea of a christmas themed film set. This type of scene works as a perfect vessel for containing the bizarre mix of characters and situations that would need to sit along side each other and keep it relatively in context.

Constructing this scene was actually a little tricky! Ordinarily I like to create flat one dimensional backgrounds for my work. However that type of approach was impossible for this piece because I needed to generate a clear depth of field to depict a contrast between the film set style backgrounds and the film studio itself.

In order to make the clear distinction between studio and set, I designed the scene to be a bit more two dimensional. Showing things like the sides of buildings and painted backdrops propped up with wooden legs. It was quite a different approach for me but I'm really happy with the outcome.

I also had a lot of fun drawing such a wide variety of characters. My personal favourite is the polar bear on a train. (Polar Express... shh...)

I used to love these sorts of games when I was a kid so getting to create one myself was a real treat. It's exciting to think people will be studying this piece in depth looking at every detail trying to get the clues.

This was a real pleasure to work on, thanks to everyone involved in making it happen. I'd love to do more of these kinds of projects in the future.